Garment-stay.



D. SGHULER. GARMENT STAY.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 9, 1910.

1,108,252. Patented Aug. 25, 1914.

WITNESSES INVENTOR and also adds to the stifiness of the structure.

To further add to the stiffness of the structure, the crossings are deflected sidewise out of the fiat plane of the'stay, as shown in Fig. 3, thereby giving the stay as a whole a concaveconveX form in cross section. This has the effect of rendering the stay as a whole stifier, and making it stiifer against stresses tending to bend the same toward the convex side than when bent away from the convex side. This particularly adapts the structure as a garment stay, where the stresses are almost entirely outwardly, so that by placing the stay with the concave face inwardly it most eflfectively takes care of the stresses to which it is normally subjected.

The stay described can be formed of comparatively light wire and is therefore of light weight, as well as being of open structure so that the garment is ventilative.

What I claimis:

A garment stay comprising wire bent back and forth to form two series of oppositely disposed, rogressively arranged loops or eyes, said oops or eyes being substantially palette shaped with broad outer ends form- 1ng substantially straight side edges of the stay and terminating in acute reverse bends near the side edges thereof, the transverse portions or crossings being inclined and each having a straight portion beginning at one of said reverse bends near one edge of the stay and. extending nearly to the other edge thereofan'd terminating inthe curved broad outer end of a loop .or eye onthe other edge of the stay, the acute reverse bends at oppositeedges of the stay all pointing in the same direction longitudinally thereof, and I the straight portions of the crossings overlapping the curved portions of the next adjacent crossings and thereby distributing wear over a considerable length of wire.

In testimony whereof, I have hereuntocset my hand. 1

, DAVID SCHULER.

Witnesses: c

M. M. BEEMAN. J. PABDEE.

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